The 2016 Dream Home: Starter House

25 Simple Ways To Turn Your House Into A Dream Home

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You’re done with school, you’ve found a steady job, and finally ditched the roommate in favor of someone you might want to spend the rest of your life with. Life is great. But now it’s time to settle down and find a place to call home. You love your starter house but you want to take it from “house” to “home” and don’t know where to start. With that in mind, here are 25 products that will turn your first house into a place that truly feels like home.

Man Cave: Marshall Mini Fridge

Marshall

Sure, you can buy a regular mini fridge for the man cave but where’s the fun in that? Marshall’s Mini Fridge is built to look like a half-stack amplifier, but hidden inside is a top freezer and 4.4 cubic feet of total internal space. It even has adjustable knobs, just like on a regular Marshall amp, except these ones go all the way up to 11.Find out more at MarshallFridge.com

Home Office: Philips Energy Light

Philips

Sometimes your home office can become devoid of any source light (besides the one being emitted from your monitor) and that can sap all the energy out of you. The Philips Energy Light is a special light therapy device that provides you with the daylight and energy to help you stay energized and motivated all throughout the day.$99.99 at Amazon.com

Kitchen: Point

Minut

It may look like a smoke detector, but it’s so much more. It’s a home monitoring device that doesn’t require a camera to keep tabs on your house. It combines sound and sensor data to monitor smoke, unusually high noise levels and even potential mold growth on your walls. But it won’t hurl an alarm at you, it will do it all discretely via mobile app.Find out more at Minut.com

Bedroom: Sony Ultra Short Throw Projector

Sony

The vast majority of bedrooms wouldn’t be big enough to have a projector, but Sony’s solution is perfect for the living room. This beautiful projector sits just seven inches from your wall and manages to project a 147-inch, 4K image onto your wall.Find out more at Sony.com

Home Gym: 35-Pound Rogue Kettlebell

Rogue Fitness

The kettle bell has been used by the Russian military for over a century, and has found a place among other military camps across the world thanks to its brutal utility. You can use this little number to correct poor posture, work your core or give yourself a workout you’re not going to forget. It should be at the core of any home gym.Find out more at RogueFitness.com

Man Cave: SPIN Remote

SPIN

A man cave has many gadgets and instruments that need to be controlled via remote. But instead of tolerating a stack of them laying all over the place, replace them all with the SPIN Remote. It can learn the functionality of all your existing remotes and control anything from infrared equipment or even smart devices. So you can flip on the ceiling fan while flipping through TV channels, all via one device.Find out more at SpinRemote.com

Home Office: Wacom Bamboo Spark

Wacom

Can you imagine if you had all your note-taking needs met in one pad? Well, wonder no more. Concealed inside Wacom’s Bamboo Spark is an electromagnetic resonance board that allows you to scribble notes with the knowledge that they’ll be safely stored inside Bamboo’s Paper app via Bluetooth. There’s room for 100 pages of doodles and you can also store a smartphone or tablet inside the case.Find out more at Wacom.com

Bedroom: Philips Vitalight

Philips

Alarm clocks are a necessary evil, but some are definitely kinder than others. The Philips Vitalight wants to help you wake up using your body’s diurnal rhythms. It features a large, sun-shaped surface that gently wakes you up using natural light, and also has a library of soothing sounds to help make the transition from sleep to work easy.$78.95 at Amazon.com

Home Gym: Fitness Gear 300-Pound Olympic Weight Set

Fitness Gear

If you want to make some serious gains in the areas that matter, this 300-pound Olympic Weight Set is sure as hell a good place to start. It features an Olympic chrome bar, six different weights to help you find the right level for you — and of course surpass it — and each plate has three handles to help with loading and unloading the bar.Find out more at DicksSportingGoods.com

Man Cave: PSVR

Sony

In the world of tech, "Virtual Reality" are the two words that are on everybody’s mind. Sony has unleashed the cheapest (so far) and arguably most fun VR set to date with the PSVR. With a solid lineup of launch games, including the chance to play as Batman, the PSVR should be the centerpiece of every man’s man cave.Find out more at Amazon.com

Home Office: UO Smart Beam Laser Projector

UO Beam

Need to give a presentation without hauling around the necessary equipment? This tiny cube can cast a display equivalent to a 100-inch screen so you can practice from the comfort of your own home before bringing your work to the office. Amazingly, it has the same brightness you’d find at any presentation in your office, and its 720p HD resolution means that when you want to power down and watch a movie instead of work, you can.Find out more at UOBeam.com

Kitchen: PancakeBot 3D Food Printer

PancakeBot

Breakfast will never be the same again. The PancakeBot is the world’s first food printer that can print a pancake to whatever specifications you wish — as long as it’s flat, of course. You simply load up your designs via SD card, pour the batter in the dispenser and press play. Your family and friends will forever be in your debt.Find out more at PancakeBot.com

Bedroom: Big Ass Fans Haiku

Big Ass Fans

Who knew a ceiling fan could be a work of art? Haiku’s Big Ass Fans are enormous fans made from sustainably harvested bamboo and aircraft-grade aluminum. This makes them completely silent to run, and means they use just a third of the power a normal fan uses. It also has seven discrete speeds including Whoosh Mode, which uses an algorithm to simulate a natural breeze.Find out more at HaikuHome.com

Home Gym: Bowflex SelectTech Adjustable Dumbbells

Bowflex

If you’re running light on space, these dumbbells give you the range of a fully stacked gym in just two bars. Each dumbbell can be adjusted to weigh anything from 5 to 52.5 pounds, in 2.5-pound increments. There’s also a rapid adjustment system to ensure you’re not waiting around in-between sets.Find out more at Bowflex.com

Man Cave: Libratone Zipp

Libratone

Add a touch of class to the cave with Libratone’s beautiful Zipp speaker. This tiny tower is capable of streaming all your favorite music via AirPlay, but you can also use it to supplement your TV thanks to its ability to stream audio through Netflix and YouTube. It also has interchangeable covers, so you can change the look of the Zipp whenever you want to upgrade your cave.Find out more at Libratone.com

Home Office: Artifox Desk 02

Artifox

There’s nothing your home office needs more than a stable desk that you don’t mind working on for most of the day. Artifox’s Desk 02 is a special affair, featuring a docking station for your smartphone and tablet, a modular chalkboard for taking notes and loads of space for all your chords.Find out more at Artiflox.com

Bedroom: Sense

Hello

If you want a device that can monitor everything going on in your bedroom without having a camera staring at you, look no further than Sense. It monitors everything from noise, light, temperature, humidity and even particles in the air from a base station, while a sleep tracker sits beneath your pillow and sends all the data about your sleep to an app. A better night’s sleep is all but guaranteed.Find out more at Hello.is

Home Gym: Precor Super Bench

Precor

This is the bench of benches. There’s a specifically designed pivot point that allows both the lower and upper pads to be adjusted in 15-degree increments to ensure proper form across a whole range of movements. It comes in a range of frame colors and upholstery so you can customize it to suit your home gym’s style.Find out more at Precor.com

Man Cave: Samsung KS9500 TV

Samsung

See everything in curved vision. Samsung’s flagship KS9500 is a 65-inch, 4K-ready TV with nanotechnology that delivers 64 times the colors of a normal TV. You will struggle to find a TV that will deliver better picture quality without spending tens of thousands of dollars. It comes with all the features you’d expect: SmartTV functionality, full Wi-Fi and a built-in speaker setup in case you wanted to keep things minimal.Find out more at Samsung.com

Home Office: Atmoph Window

Atmoph

If, like us, your office is in the least glamorous part of your home, you need Atmoph’s Window. It’s a digital window that allows you to see vistas from pretty much anywhere in the world, or see videos with sound. You simply download what you want to see via Wi-Fi, connect it to your smartphone and then away you go. A better view is but a click away.Find out more at Atmoph.com

Kitchen: Vitamix Professional Series 500

Vitamix

A commercial-grade blender at home may seem excessive, but trust us; you’ll never look back. Featuring a motor that can turn at 240mph, it’ll whip through raw vegetables, fruit, and even meat if you’re so inclined. It can also chop, cream, blend, heat, grind and churn, all at the push of a button. Prepare to welcome the king of blenders to your home.$598.00 at Amazon.com

Bedroom: ReST Bed

ReST

Who doesn't need a bed that adapts to how they sleep? You'll love going back home after a hard day at work even more with the ReST bed — a bed that customizes support wherever you body needs it. By monitoring 2,000 pressure points on the body, the ReST bed can automatically adjust and equalize pressure and firmness for your head, feet, shoulders, hips and lumbar.Find out more at RestPerformance.com

Home Gym: BodyMax CF485 Premium Strength Package Power Rack

BodyMax

A power rack can help turn your home gym from a shabby setup to an altar of fitness. This particular rack has a capacity of 800lbs, a pulley attachment so you can work on your lats, and it also comes with a weight bench and barbell kit, so you’re not having to source weights and accessories from elsewhere.Find out more at Bodymax-Fitness.com